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Executive  Department,  > 
Richmond,  January  11,  1862.       \ 

To  the  President  of  the  Congress : 

Sir  :  I  herewith  transmit  to  the  Congress  a  communica- 
tion from  the  Secretary  of  War,  recommending  a  certain 
appropriation  therein  mentioned. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


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War  Department,  > 

Richmond,  January  10th,  1362.      ) 

Sir  :  During  the  past  summer  Major  General  Tolk  found 
it  necessary  on  some  emergencies  to  borrow  money  tempora- 
rily from  the  banks  in  Tennessee,  amounting  in  all  to  three 
hundred  and  ninety  thousand  dollars.  These  sums  advanced 
to  quartermasters  have  been  repaid  out  of  the  regular 
appropriations.  But  General  Polk  agreed  to  pay  interest, 
and  as  this  was  'without  authority  of  law,  I  have  of  course 
been  without  power  to  make  the  payment.  The  total  amount 
borrowed  is  shown  by  enclosed  statement  A,  and  the  interest 
due  is  shewn  by  statement  B,  and  amounts  to  $6,466  43. 

As  this  money  was  advanced  for  the  purpose  of  public 
defence  at  a  time  when  mechanical  embarrassments  in  the 
engraving  and  preparation  of  Treasury  Notes  prevented  the 
prompt  supply  of  funds  necessary  for  support  of  the  army, 
I  beg  respectfully  that  you  transmit  to  Congress  this  recom- 
mendation for  an  appropriation  of  six  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  sixty-six  dollars  forty-three  cents,  to  be  applied  to 
the  payment  of  said  interest. 

I  am,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  P.  BENJAMIN, 

Secretary  of  War. 
To  the  President. 


(A.) 


Quartermaster  General's  Office, 
Richmond,  Va.,  January  10th,  1862. 

STATEMENT  of  the  amount  remitted  to  General  Polk 
to  pay  the  Banks  for  liabilities  contracted  by  him,  the 
funds  for  which  were  advanced  by  the  following  Banks, 
viz  : 


Bank  of  West  Tennessee . . . 
Branch  of  the  Union  Bank.. 
Branch  of  the  Planters'  Bank 

Bank  of  Memphis 

Branch  Bank  of  Tennessee. . 


BONDS.  TREAS  Y  NOTES. 

$10,000  00  $165,000  00 

20,000  00    55,000  00 

45,000  00 

50,000  00 

45,010  00 


$30,000  00  $360,010  00 
$30,000  00 


Total  amount, $390,010  00 


(B.) 


STATEMENT  of  Interest  due  the  Banks  at  Memphis, 
Tennessee,  by  Major  General  Leoniclas  Polk  : 

Bank  of  West  Tennessee,  as  per  statement.. . .  $2,760  94 

Bank  of  Memphis,                             "              1,050  00 

Branch  Union  Bank,                         "              1,300  66 

Branch  State  Bank,                         "             664  00 

Planters' Bank,                                 "             690  83 


^$6,466  43 
The  above  account  is  approved,  and  I  recommend  its  pay- 
ment. 

L.  POLK, 

Major  General  Commanding. 


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